Hark! It's a Crawling Tar-Tar
Hark! It's a Crawling Tar-Tar
Genres: Crust, hardcore, neocrust, indonesia, d-beat
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About Hark! It's a Crawling Tar-Tar
Bandung, Indonesia This collective, which consists of Ari (vocals), Dede (guitar), Kenji (drums), Uep (bass) and Billy (guitar), is an amalgamation of two now defunct hardcore bands, Tuberculosis and Domestik Doktrin, that had fairly strong followings in the hardcore scene. The melding occurred when Tuberculosis lost its front man and Domestik Doktrin essentially broke up when three of its members left to eventually form Hark* It's a Crawling Tar-Tar. Concerning their more than slightly off-kilter name, vocalist Ari explained it stemmed from a habit he had back in college of sketching and scribbling down random thoughts and words he had into his notebook. He thought of the tartar control toothpaste he used, and wondered how freaky it would be if the tartar in your mouth came alive and began crawling around your room. This absurdist imaginative streak is indicative of the highly inventive chord changes and song structures they produce. The songs seem to be constructed in layers, evoking the sense each composition is a house with many rooms, each containing a piece of a puzzle that when put together, culminates in the revelation of the whole picture or the core meaning of the piece. Their lyrical content, like many hardcore bands, are heavy in social and political messages. But instead of the usual curses toward the government and religion, the music of Hark* It's a Crawling Tar-Tar contains serious observations advocating a sort of mental Cultural Revolution, forcing people to question their own mind-set about things considered commonplace and rise up against the slave mentality that infects the minds of people in third world countries. For the above reasons alone, anyone interested in music and lyrical content that is decidedly different from anything in the local hardcore scene would be highly remiss in not doing everything they could to get their hands on this music.
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